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Parkland shooting survivors visit El Paso to discuss gun control

Mark Lambie, El Paso Times
Published 8:40 a.m. MT July 11, 2018

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Students from across the country including school shooting survivors meet in El Paso to discuss gun control.
Mark Lambie, El Paso Times

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Emma Gonzalez, who became a gun control advocate after surviving the school shooting at Stoneman Douglass High School in Parkland, Florida, meets other teens in the lobby of the El Paso Community Foundation Tuesday as students spoke on a panel in an adjacent room. The March for Our Lives, Road to Change brought students from across the country and El Paso to discuss gun control. (Photo11: MARK LAMBIE / EL PASO TIMES)Buy Photo

Emma Gonzalez, who became a gun control advocate after surviving the school shooting at Stoneman Douglass High School in Parkland, Fla., was one of the speakers at a gun control panel Tuesday in El Paso.

The March for Our Lives, Road to Change forum brought students from across the country and El Paso to discuss gun control at the El Paso Community Foundation.

Gonzalez was met with hugs and praise as she entered the Community Foundation lobby.

The visit wasn't welcomed by all. A group of anti-gun control protesters marched outside the Community Foundation, with at least one man carrying an assault rifle.

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Emma Gonzalez, who became a gun control advocate after surviving the school shooting at Stoneman Douglass High School in Parkland, Florida, meets other teens in the lobby of the El Paso Community Foundation Tuesday as students spoke on a panel in an adjacent room. The March for Our Lives, Road to Change brought students from across the country and El Paso to discuss gun control. MARK LAMBIE / EL PASO TIMES

Emma Gonzalez, who became a gun control advocate after surviving the school shooting at Stoneman Douglass High School in Parkland, Florida, meets other teens in the lobby of the El Paso Community Foundation Tuesday as students spoke on a panel in an adjacent room. The March for Our Lives, Road to Change brought students from across the country and El Paso to discuss gun control. MARK LAMBIE / EL PASO TIMES

Alfonso Calderon from Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida speaks during a panel discussion on gun control Tuesday at the El Paso Community Foundation. Ten students from across the country came together to discuss a solution to gun violence during the March for Our Lives, Road To Change event in El Paso. MARK LAMBIE / EL PASO TIMES

Alfonson Calderon, a survivor of the school shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida hugs Bree Butler a survivor of the Santa Fe, Texas high school shooting after she spoke Tuesday at the El Paso Community Foundation. MARK LAMBIE / EL PASO TIMES

Santa Fe High School survivor Bree Butler remembers the day of the shooting at her school during the March for Our Lives, Road to Change event Tuesday at the El Paso Community Foundation. MARK LAMBIE / EL PASO TIMES